giovedì, marzo 16, 2006

BrowserHawk

File this under curiosity: have you ever heard of “BrowserHawk”? It’s a browser detection component that uses a combination of server-side and client-side detection methods.

Some of the benefits they claim on their site:

Accurately detects every visitor's browser and system settings
Automatically logs all detected settings to your database
Integrates seamlessly with all ASP, ASP.NET, CFMX, and JSP web sites
Easily ensures your minimum system requirements are met
Self-updating browser definitions
Unique browser stats and analytics
Proven, industry standard solution

I wonder if it’s any good, or provides better coverage than I could already implement myself, using JavaScript or serverside schemes? Macromedia has an older article on it, but I didn’t discover anything recent.